Originally Posted by
Renato GF Naso
Hi!! Yes, I wouldn't mind discs, but only with four-fingers cross-style brake-levers, to keep the weight at the back! (It's a matter of weight-distribution!!)
You're so right about this, I really can't believe that the industry has yet to offer some sort of auxiliary brake levers for the so-popular gravel bikes. The several-inch reduction of reach to the bars when descending steeper sections off road is just huge in terms of what you can and can't do safely.
They can either add a pivoted lever to the sides of the existing levers, or develop a simple check-valve equipped auxiliary master cylinder for each brake line, but they really should have had this sorted out a good couple of years ago imo.
I just got my first gravel wheelset, tubeless tires on wide rims woo-hoo! But I got a deal on the rim-braked version and used an older 'cross bike having auxiliary levers with canti-brakes that was ridiculously affordable on the used market (big thanks here to all of the "disc-is-always-better" marketing).
No regrets I can tell you, the aux levers are worth their weight in gold.
